RyJones

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by RyJones 11y ago
Making the victim feel good that "something is being done."
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by RyJones 11y ago
MSN Messenger made idiotic amounts of money with custom emoji packs. I don't know if it was significant - like, was MSNIM ever cash flow positive? Doubt it.
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by RyJones 11y ago
No, but I did DJ at WMHD in the mid-80s. Hung out with Ron Dippold and Wayne McDaniel.
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by RyJones 11y ago
Agreed. Eat there frequently. And you spent time in Terre Haute. My congratulations on your escape.
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by RyJones 11y ago
It looks like every four days Facebook gets a Flickr worth of photos.
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by RyJones 12y ago
You might provide appropriate local conversions - to a 4.0 scale for US companies, for instance
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by RyJones 12y ago
He's a little more involved in D than using it in his compiler :)
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by RyJones 12y ago
I complained for years that a bunch of Seattle POIs were transposed to Kirkland. If you were on the east side of Lake Washington and asked for a route to the Seattle Federal Building, it would take you to a residential neighborhood near dow
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The Paralysis of Perfect(medium.com)
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by RyJones 12y ago
At Microsoft (and I'm sure at Google), there was an internal "rude FAQ" that was full of these answers. I felt it a shame we couldn't just publish that, instead.
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by RyJones 12y ago
I wish NASCAR would take an MLB-like stance to races. NASCAR's efforts are pathetic and insultingly expensive for what little you get.
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by RyJones 12y ago
Agreed. You need the people to take the risks. Now, please excuse me while I fashion coconut husks into headphones and wait for my planes to land.
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by RyJones 12y ago
Every area in the US that isn't the Valley tries to claim it has, or is working on, an equivalent. They are mostly where you are in terms of replicating the valley.
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by RyJones 12y ago
Chipping barrels with toasted chips is extremely common in distilleries that are just getting started. Also, smaller barrels and artificial heat/cool cycles. Take some distillery tours, you'll learn a lot of shortcuts to producing
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by RyJones 12y ago
thank you
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by RyJones 12y ago
It used to amuse me that training companies used one person taking one class once as enough excuse to advertise "Microsoft approved training!" Someone spending training budget on something does require approval, but there was (at
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by RyJones 12y ago
https://reddit.com/r/nottheonion ?
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by RyJones 12y ago
The title of the webpage is "The Hurr Durr Archives"
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by RyJones 12y ago
In the US season tickets (in my experience) are only slightly different from other tickets, in that they're paper with a coupon that may or may not be torn off when you enter. Season tickets have nicer printing and logos and come in a
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by RyJones 12y ago
Also, this week on This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/550/t...
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by RyJones 12y ago
Nice to see BOTLs on HN!
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by RyJones 12y ago
Thanks for the pointer. Agreed about the breath of fresh air. I installed it a couple weeks ago to play with my kids and we had a fun time with it.
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by RyJones 12y ago
I dispute your second claim, based on personal experience, as well as the Mythbusters episode on same. http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t... Perhaps you can find the segment online somewhere,
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by RyJones 12y ago
We played a lot of Spaceteam at Friday beer bashes at Lab 126. Great party game. The blog post is from December, 2013. Wonder where his stats are now?
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by RyJones 12y ago
It's in the ISC data center.
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by RyJones 12y ago
Amazon's offices were shockingly bad for this.
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by RyJones 12y ago
In my experience QA wants it a lot more (test from known artifacts) than dev.
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by RyJones 12y ago
Castro is nice enough but there are enough people to support another urban center. I'm with you on being skeptical of dome life.
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by RyJones 12y ago
I worked on Windows Live Mobile for Windows Mobile. Thankfully it was renamed.
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by RyJones 12y ago
Understood

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